With the maturing of the all-flash array (AFA) market, the established market leaders in this space are turning their attention to other ways to differentiate themselves from their competition besides just product functionality. Consciously designing and driving a better customer experience (CX) is a strategy being pursued by many of these vendors.This white paper defines cloud-based predictive analytics and discusses evolving storage requirements that are driving their use and takes a look at how these platforms are being used to drive incremental value for public sector organizations in the areas of performance, availability, management, recovery, and information technology (IT) infrastructure planning.

Australian businesses have long been recognised as leaders in the adoption of cloud services and the migration of core infrastructure to cloud platforms.
Yet as ambitious ‘cloud-first’ programs are executed, performance and complexity issues have led many organisations to embrace the middle ground – a hybrid IT solution combining public cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Fast-growing hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platforms are increasingly being recognised as an ideal enabler for this strategy, with a software-based design that combines robust computing infrastructure with a high degree of centralisation, integration, flexibility, and analytics-based monitoring and manageability.
Read how companies such as Beam Suntory have redefined enterprise architecture and learn more about the way an integrated hyperconverged infrastructure can help you build the right infrastructure for the future.

Change data capture (CDC) technology can modernize your data and analytics environment with scalable, efficient and real-time data replication that does not impact production systems.
To realize these benefits, enterprises need to understand how this critical technology works, why it’s needed, and what their Fortune 500 peers have learned from their CDC implementations. This book serves as a practical guide for enterprise architects, data managers and CIOs as they enable modern data lake, streaming and cloud architectures with CDC.
Read this book to understand:
? The rise of data lake, streaming and cloud platforms
? How CDC works and enables these architectures
? Case studies of leading-edge enterprises
? Planning and implementation approaches

All native and ‘transitioning’ media companies are focusing heavily on content to save existing businesses, or building new business models, or both. Television broadcasters, wary of the growing cord-cutting, are spending large sums on premium content. In 2017, the top four media companies spent more than USD 34 billion on original and acquired non-sports programming. Pure-play OTT providers have, on the other hand, bet big on content to shore up on subscribers. Netflix alone spent more than USD 6 billion on content last year, while spend was USD 7 billion for Amazon and Hulu combined. Transitioning media companies, such as telecom and technology companies that are moving towards being a media company, are also allocating sizable funds for content in their quest to explore supplementary businesses, by boosting customer engagement on their platforms. Apple and Facebook have started creating their own original content, and spend is only going to expand further.

A leading US-based broadcasting and publishing firm, with a market value of $17 Bn plus, creates, acquires and distributes entertainment content to global consumers over diverse platforms. The Company owns iconic media brands and has the viewership base amongst the US cable networks. The Broadcaster wanted to gain deeper insights into audience viewership patterns, advertisement impressions and sales data, in order to streamline the management of its advertisement deals. LTI's ADAPT (AD Sales Audience Prediction and tracking) solution optimized allocation, management, tracking and maintenance of advertisement air time to substantial increase in Marketing ROI.

Many on-demand companies are starting to rely on fast, accurate and robust mapping and location technologies in order to stay competitive and to provide superior end-user experience. Leveraging location data can assist you in accurately locating each delivery address, matching demand with available supply and exceeding your customer’s expectations.
Discover a variety of ways in which on-demand transportation can be optimized by maps and location services such as those created by HERE.
As one of the world’s leading location platforms in 2018, HERE shares insights and solutions to improve transportation efficiency and safety.

This is an at-a-glance guide to the ways location data can help you increase the efficiency of your fleet, optimizing delivery routes and ETAs. Presented to you by HERE, one of the world’s leading location platforms in 2018.

This is an at-a-glance guide to the key innovation trends in fleet management that leverage location data to improve last-mile efficiency and road safety. Presented to you by HERE, one of the world’s leading location platforms in 2019.

A data science platform is where all data science work takes place and acts as the system of record for predictive models. While a few leading model-driven businesses have made the data science platform an integral part of their enterprise architecture, most companies are still trying to understand what a data science platform is and how it fits into their architecture. Data science is unlike other technical disciplines, and models are not like software or data. Therefore, a data science platform requires a different type of technology platform.
This document provides IT leaders with the top 10 questions to ask of data science platforms to ensure the platform handles the uniqueness of data science work.

The maturity of cloud platforms inspires new confidence in moving mission critical systems to the cloud to gain agility, scale, and cost benefits. How can your company achieve these benefits? What steps are necessary to begin your contact centre’s inevitable move to the cloud?
Choosing the right contact centre partner will ensure your cloud journey success. Do you know how to find the right contact centre partner to help move to the cloud?
This eBook offers ten key considerations for selecting a partner and moving to a cloud-based contact centre. Having a good sense for your business requirements, your prospective partner’s capabilities, and the cultural fit will pay off in helping you realize your business goals in the long run.

The maturity of cloud platforms inspires new confidence in moving mission critical systems to the cloud to gain agility, scale, and cost benefits. How can your company achieve these benefits? What steps are necessary to begin your contact centre’s inevitable move to the cloud?
Choosing the right contact centre partner will ensure your cloud journey success. Do you know how to find the right contact centre partner to help move to the cloud?
This eBook offers ten key considerations for selecting a partner and moving to a cloud-based contact centre. Having a good sense for your business requirements, your prospective partner’s capabilities, and the cultural fit will pay off in helping you realize your business goals in the long run.

The maturity of cloud platforms inspires new confidence in moving mission critical systems to the cloud to gain agility, scale, and cost benefits. How can your company achieve these benefits? What steps are necessary to begin your contact centre’s inevitable move to the cloud?
Choosing the right contact centre partner will ensure your cloud journey success. Do you know how to find the right contact centre partner to help move to the cloud?
This eBook offers ten key considerations for selecting a partner and moving to a cloud-based contact centre. Having a good sense for your business requirements, your prospective partner’s capabilities, and the cultural fit will pay off in helping you realize your business goals in the long run.

Everyone says they’re “in the cloud,” but most technology leaders would agree that not all clouds are created equal. When evaluating a cloud contact centre solution for your business, it’s important to understand the difference between a true Cloud 2.0 application and traditional software, including which features to look for and why those features are important.
Download this eBook and learn:
How a true Cloud 2.0 model is built to provide levels of reliability, scalability, flexibility and security that that far exceed those of previous generations
The benefits of utilising a platform built on microservices architecture
How to take your business to the next level with a built to scale cloud contact centre platform

The maturity of cloud platforms inspires new confidence in moving mission critical systems to the cloud to gain agility, scale, and cost benefits. How can your company achieve these benefits? What steps are necessary to begin your contact centre’s inevitable move to the cloud?
Choosing the right contact centre partner will ensure your cloud journey success. Do you know how to find the right contact centre partner to help move to the cloud?
This eBook offers ten key considerations for selecting a partner and moving to a cloud-based contact centre. Having a good sense for your business requirements, your prospective partner’s capabilities, and the cultural fit will pay off in helping you realize your business goals in the long run.

We all use APIs every day. The demands of digital transformation, and the related need for platforms and ecosystems, make it essential to manage APIs throughout their life cycle. We identify the pros and cons of a wide range of API management vendors and offerings, to help you make the right choice.

We’ll give you some key insights on how consumers are using technology platforms to guide them, how your clients can leverage those tools to win business, and how you can drive recurring revenue through location marketing services.
We’ll also offer some specific tips on optimizing online presence for brands and maximizing budget – taking advantage of the techniques most likely to drive business.
Read on to learn more!

Advertising has evolved. No longer is it restricted to print publications, static billboards, radio, and television. Modern technologies have opened the door to a whole new era of advertising–digital advertising. Digital advertising allows marketers and advertisers to reach and appeal to their core audiences in new ways and with more precision.
The challenge of meeting the modern buyer's expectation of a continuous, cross-channel, and personal experience is met with new ad technology and innovations that continue to advance at break-neck speeds. New ad technology platforms, types of ads, methods of tracking, dynamic ad content, and advances such as the Internet of Things now provide endless opportunities for marketers and advertisers to engage their customers personally and across channels.
In this comprehensive, 110+ page guide, we cover topics from the evolution of digital advertising, to how to structure your digital marketing team, to testing and optimization. Loaded with checkli

Effective workload automation that provides complete management level visibility into real-time events impacting the delivery of IT services is needed by the data center more than ever before. The traditional job scheduling approach, with an uncoordinated set of tools that often requires reactive manual intervention to minimize service disruptions, is failing more than ever due to todays complex world of IT with its multiple platforms, applications and virtualized resources.

For many organizations, managing and delivering the knowledge contained within documents is difficult or impossible due to technological disparity. Conventional approaches to knowledge
management work within the constraints of disparate platforms, applications, and output devices, and fail to address technological disparity.

Flexera’s Software Vulnerability Research allows effective reduction of the attack surface for cybercriminals, providing access to verified vulnerability intelligence from Secunia Research covering all applications and systems across all platforms. It drives a prioritized remediation process by handling vulnerability workflows, tickets and alerts, and describes the steps to mitigate the risk of costly breaches.
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know
It’s hard for enterprise security analysts to get reliable and trusted information about software vulnerabilities and then identify and filter that data for just the products that matter to their organization. Those challenges lead to wasted time and effort.
Learn more.

As the technology landscape grows and evolves with new devices, new software, and new platforms, keeping tabs on an organization's IT assets is a moving target. How can you gain accurate visibility of software assets to drive strategic and financial decisions that impact finance and reduce security risk?
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Flexera shows the potential return on investment for a Data Platform customer. Through their research, Forrester found that customers achieved a 302% ROI with their investment, with payback within months by benefiting from multiple use cases throughout the organization in the following areas:
-Cost savings from reduction in licenses
-Avoided increases in licenses from audit activities
-Hardware maintenance savings
-Improved productivity
-Reduced effort for divestiture activities
Get the full study to learn how your business can benefit from Flexera solutions.

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